[Flick Lives]

It neighbours the UNESCO World Heritage site of Gobekli Tepe, which is home to megalithic structures dating to the 10th millennium BC and is thought to be the world's oldest temple site.

Watched an interesting YouTube video awhile back which compared carvings on the *back* of the Easter Island statues (I didn't even know there were carvings on the back!) with the carvings at gobekli tepe. Many iconic similarities including the bird-like creatures. Could these all be ruins from the same antediluvian culture?

[Fai Mao]

Or, it could be that they are unrelated. Especially since Easter island 8 or 9 thousand years later.

[ckilmer]

I have read variously that those bird figures are death cult figures and or astrological signs.

Those bird figures are not in any of the cave paintings around the world that predate the younger dryas.

On the other handbags in the pictures are a motif that shows 5-6 thousand years later among the Sumerians from 4000 bc onwards and the other Mesopotamian cultures up until about 500 bc.

[zeugma]

# Watched an interesting YouTube video awhile back which compared carvings on the *back* of the Easter Island statues (I didn’t even know there were carvings on the back!) with the carvings at gobekli tepe.

That’s nothing. I didn’t realize they had full bodies until just a few years ago.